Politicians who receive payments from weapons makers must be arrested and jailed
The US is a sick nation and has infected others. How can it be healed? The US is like a cancer patient in the last stages of a condition that has metastastized throughout their body.
However, Its disease is caused by a pathological condition that is mental and spiritual and has been caused by a small group of powerful inhumans who have long seized power in government, media, business, macroeconomy, entertainment, think tanks, education and all major institutions, and thanks to its seizure of the press and other culture-shaping institutions, and other machinations, mostly unseen, has made of the American a zombi-like creature who has lost his humanity, his empathy, and has become a detached individual with fear and contempt for his fellow humans.
So how can we be healed?
Firstly, Homo americanus must be made to understand that he and his country are deathly ill and in dire need of healing in order to survive. To accomplish this realization, they must be shown in unequivocal terms that this state of hate and fear is neither normal nor acceptable for our species. He must clearly understand that he is sick and that a cure must be found. He must believe this with such fervor that his quest for a cure becomes an all-consuming obsession. He must be shown that he is a prisoner of a false narrative and that he will never heal until such time as he joins with his fellow prisoners in a plot to escape from that mental prison.
We are now at a potential inflection point, having glimpsed the unspeakable horrors caused by our “best ally in the Middle East.” Thanks to the increasingly undeniable to which we are exposed daily, to deny the inhumanity of this “ally” will require vast mental resources and put enormous strain on our ability to deny, to the point of forcing us to gradually discard the myths on which our civilization, including our religion, has existed throughout our lifetimes.
We are at a civilizational breaking point on the collective level, similar to a traumatically induced nervous breakdown on the individual level. Similar to the post traumatic stress disorder suffered by discharged soldiers after prolonged exposure to battle.
To heal this sick individual and his/her sick country, they must be brought face to face with the irrefutable fact that they and their compatriots are actually sick and that their country is moribund and cannot survive for much longer in its present state and trajectory.
The symptoms are there.
Americans know or sense that there are no viable choices in today’s politics. The intelligent, sensitive person today sees or feels that his country, from which he/she is becoming increasingly alienated, has dragged you into a war in which you are expected to support inhuman Nazis, yes, literal Nazis – though that fact is vehemently denied – whose intention is to destroy a civilization that in important ways is superior, and, elsewhere, to support a country that seeks to destroy another helpless suffering people by means of a senseless genocide, in which we are all bidden to partake. With no clear explanation of why this should be so.
You are also part of an economic system that seeks not your benefit but that of a small group that is siphoning off increasing portions of your income to send to the Nazis and genocidal maniacs, and the amounts taken from your income have been so great that if you or anyone in your family should get sick and require an expensive operation or ongoing medical treatment, you will be forced to sell or mortgage your home to pay the resulting expenses. Either that or simply await death.
What sense does any of this make? Is it not way past time for us to rebel and to give no quarter to the psychopaths who have created this hell on earth?
Deep inside, you can’t understand why you are to donate so much of your sustenance to Nazis and genocidal killers, although your government has created narratives designed to bring you into line with this policy. But the more you think about it, the more you are convinced that it is all a gigantic hoax and a swindle.
As you look around you see a field of candidates for higher office who all talk alike and all seek to capture you for the pro-Nazi, pro-genocide agenda that has controlled both political parties that you are expected to choose between. One of them, a powerful senator, angrily screams that we should bomb Russia and China. Trump says much the same thing to his donors. A powerful woman, grinning like an ape, declares that Netanyahu should finish them all. Does she know that this maniac has already finished off 12,000 women and children? Does she not know that sane observers are comparing her favorably with the Bitch of Buchenwald? And that the comparison fits her like a glove?
And yet, the rest of the political hacks in their retinue applaud these utter maniacs.
Your are told that your political system is “democratic” and that your vote is crucial.
Yet all the candidates are loyal to the same donor groups, and that will not change no matter whom you vote for. Because you are not part of the overall equation. You don’t fit. Sit down and be quiet.
The secret to healing is to know that you are being lied to by both political parties – that all candidates are corrupt to the core and that none represent you or their country. And that a major cause of your and your country’s malaise is that its’s been captured and that the wizard behind the curtain is the donors to which each politician or candidate owes their soul. Their first love is money. You are in their way.
The salient example of this total capture of the candidates and politicians by the donor class is the bizarre behavior of Joe Biden and his team, each of whom insists that there is no genocide in Palestine, despite the indisputable fact that at least 55,000 have died following the near-total destruction of Gaza and now Rafah. That is, an official count of over 40,000 plus all the unidentified corpses lying under the rubble – at least 15,000, who are classified as “missing.”
You are not stupid and you know that two international courts have both decided that Israel is committing genocide. So based on that fact and the reports you’ve read plus the photos and video you’ve seen, you know your government is flat out lying.
You also know that the other potential candidate for the November election, ie, Donald Trump, has made it clear that he is irrationally loyal to the genocidal Israel and wants it to keep waging a war that is not a war at all but nothing more than a slaughter of helpless people, and that, in addition, he has contemplated bombing both nuclear armed countries Russia and China for reasons that he can’t begin to articulate, although his constituents do not require him to do so. And not being stupid, you know that this candidate would inevitably cause the two states in question to retaliate, most likely destroying most of the United States including most likely your own home and family.
Do you need this?
The only way you and your fellow Americans can overcome this dilemma is firstly to figure out what is causing this grave malaise that prompts all major politicians to lie and support evil.
The obvious answer – made crystal clear by Biden’s behavior – is that America’s most powerful politicians are sold out to their donors and that your vote is irrelevant. I gave you a very important clue in my article Most US federal officials are foreign agents.
But the fact that the main donors who control our politicians are foreign agents was not the whole problem. There are other dangerous donors who also control our politicians to support wars, and they are mostly domestic donors, namely, the makers of armaments. Without the nefarious influence of these deep pocketed donors, it is likely that the US would no longer have any motive to support wars of the kind that are draining our national finances. But as things stand, the US regime’s war frenzy has led to a financial scenario in which the US is now paying $1 trillion annually just on the service of our debt alone, as I pointed out in my article USA Inc. is the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. This is because the US is not in the least concerned with defense, as I showed here, but is obsessed with filling the pockets of arms-industry donors. BTW, some of the most generous donors of all are the bankers who feed the US government’s Ponzi scheme.
The power of donors is demonstrated quite handily in this article, which points out:
…after comparing the average amount a House member received [from arms maker donors] to how they voted on the NDAA, I found that lawmakers who supported the $80 billion military spending hike accepted seven times more cash from military contractors than members who opposed it.
So can you now understand that people who are supposed to represent the public are not representing us in any way whatsoever but are representing only their donors and their bank accounts? Needless to say, this is criminal behavior. They are betraying you and their country, contributing mightily to its economic demise and your personal impoverishment. These greedy politicians are not just corrupt, they are racketeers and belong behind bars.
The remedy
In my article entitled Time to arrest and jail foreign agents, relating to officials corrupted by AIPAC, the Israel lobby, I closed by suggesting a remedy. The very same remedy for dealing with crooked pols on the dole of Israel applies mutatis mutandis to officials taking bribes from arms manufacturers and then voting for wars. Like the officials bribed by Israel, these human slime who accept bribes from arms makers are causing the deaths of countless innocent civilians under color of law. That is in fact a crime against humanity.
Quote from that article:
Even if the machinations of this destructive organization are, strictly speaking, legal, it is a group [in this case, the arms makers and their bribe takers] that has deeply, and possibly permanently, damaged our national fiber, literally making our entire government complicit in crimes practically on a par with those of the Third Reich. Before the TV cameras and the eyes of print journalists. [In addition, the spending on arms not really needed and wars against countries that are not a threat to Americans has severely crippled our national and personal economies.]
It must not be allowed to continue, and the corrupt senators, congress people and presidents participating in its machinations must be dealt with forcefully and severely - not with just a warning or a slap on the wrist. Otherwise, nothing will ever stop them.
To put an end to this greatest of all threats to the US people, a tough new law must be drafted and passed to prosecute all the perpetrators in our capital. [let me add the following to that original text: since it is impossible to determine whether a politician is supporting a war as a result of a bribe in the form of a “campaign contribution,” the only alternative is to make it illegal for an arms manufacturer to donate – either directly or indirectly via a third party – to a serving politician or a candidate for public office who is in a position to make decisions that benefit that donor financially with public funds]
This can be done only if enough Americans are informed of the vital need for such a law and join together in acts of disobedience until the perpetrators become fearful of exposure and new laws are passed to make this corruption illegal.
Failing this, since the US is already badly weakened by a corrupt financial system, we can only wait for the collapse, which cannot be long in coming, as we saw here.
Of course, it is not just AIPAC that must be denied further meddling in US politics. There are other donors that pull the strings of Congress and the White House, and their nefarious influence must also be neutralized.
All donor-legislator or -White house links must be broken. More on this later. [This is your “later”]
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Here’s your daily air strike update for May 30, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
MAY 30, 2024
“THE BASE FOR TRANSPORTING F-16s IS NO LONGER” - NEW DETAILS: KINZHALS HIT NATO “PEACEKEEPERS”. "179 KILLED" - NEW TACTICS AND A TURNING POINT
On the night of May 30, the Russian Aerospace Forces again attacked the special Starokonstantinov airfield, where American F-16 fighters were to be based. Moreover, a number of sources previously reported that the fighter jets themselves had already arrived in Ukraine, as promised by the American authorities, “after Easter.” The insider stated bluntly: “There is no longer a base for the transfer of F-16s” - details. "Kinzhals" and "Iskanders" [both missiles are hypersonic] are hitting NATO "peacekeepers". "179 killed." New tactics and a turning point in the Northern Military District.
The air raid alarm blared all night
Last night, an air raid alert was declared throughout Ukraine. Sources reported on the work of tactical aviation, launches of controlled bombs, cruise missiles and drones. In Kiev and Kharkov, strong explosions were heard - the consequences of the strike; and in Chernomorsk there was a strong fire.
Afterwards the publication "Paragraf" reported:
The matter will not be limited to an attack by cruise missiles by the Russian Armed Forces; they report the takeoff of the MiG-31K, the carrier of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
New attacks on the Starokonstantinov airfield. Previously unknown details
The first reports of new attacks on the Khmelnitsky oblast began to arrive at approximately 04:40 Moscow time.
There are reports of an attack on a military airfield near Starokonstantinov. Presumably, the Kiev regime plans to use it as the main base for F-16 fighters, said Russian journalist Ruslan Ostashko.
The Condottiero Insider stated that the base was completely destroyed:
Missiles and Gerans [Russian made drones] calmly maneuver in Ukrainian airspace without encountering resistance [Russia has destroyed many air defense systems, which is why Zelensky keeps shrieking for more. He doesn’t seem to know that hypersonic missiles cannot be shot down by any known system, His ignorance of so many things has cost Ukraine its statehood and its male population]. Yes, according to the [Ukrainian] reports, they shot down everything [Lying is the only way for them to save face]. Last night, the Starokonstantinov military airfield in Khmelnytsky was responsible for the downing. The strikes by three Kinzhals and several Kalibers can still be seen 5 km from the city. The targets have been destroyed, there is no longer a base for the transfer of F-16s.
Military expert Yuri Podolyaka also commented on the situation:
Today there was another significant <…> strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on Ukraine. Tu-95MSM and Geran bombers took part in it. And just like last time, the main blow was delivered to the airfield in Starokonstantinov. Apparently, our command decided to minimize the enemy’s ability to use Storm Shadow missiles as much as possible. It is also possible that this is connected <…> with the deployment of infrastructure for basing American F-16s here. Whether this is true or not, Starokonstantinov took on the next dose of both Gerans and KR X-101s.
Details of the attacks on the Khmelnitsky oblast and Starokonstantinov were reported by the lpr 1 channel:
Strike on an underground ammunition depot. A blow to the previously destroyed power plant. A strike at the place where active aircraft usually park. Perhaps one of them was destroyed. Hitting a concrete area is not a precision hit, it is impossible to judge the effectiveness. Arrivals on the runway/taxiing (earlier (summer 2023) trucks and other equipment were seen).
The coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, also shed light on the situation:
Fuel and lubricants and new missiles are regularly delivered to the airfield and used to strike Russian cities. At the moment, the missile carriers are converted Su-27s. One of the attacks hit the Vokzal-2 microdistrict, which is adjacent to the military airfield. According to Resistance reports, storage facilities in the area are being used by the military. After the impact, ambulances left the city towards the neighborhood; our comrades counted seven vehicles, but there could have been more. They report a hit in one of the arched shelters of type 2A-13, in which the Ukrainian Armed Forces hide aircraft, as well as munitions for them. The hit occurred at approximately 4:30 am, accompanied by a series of explosions and the emission of flames and sparks.
Before this, the last powerful attack on the airfield occurred on May 26.
The insider Tg channel "Visionary Channel" reported that "the first F-16s in Ukraine were hit by a missile strike."
Tonight a massive combined strike was carried out on the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky oblast. First, up to 20 Geran-2 UAVs attacked, followed by 12 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aircraft. And the cherry on the cake was three Kinzhals from MiG-31K aircraft, which the Ukrainian side never learned how to shoot down, the author said, citing his sources. [Actually, he was being sarcastic, because, as I stated above, Kinzhals cannot be shot down by any known air defense systems]
It was also reported that the western part of Ukraine, in particular Zhytomyr, was attacked at night.
For the second day, our troops are attacking places directly connected with NATO. If today it is an airfield where instructors and engineers from NATO countries have met many times, then yesterday it was the Center for International Peacekeeping and Security, created in 2022, after the first defeat of the military infrastructure in the area by the Russian army. Insiders reported on the dead “peacekeepers”.
Kinzhal strike on the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lviv oblast. The command post for maintaining the F-16 and managing its guidance systems and technical condition has been demolished. A lot of people died, all of them from Benelux [The Benelux nations are Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg]. 179 killed and 201 seriously wounded. Everyone was evacuated to Poland and Germany throughout the night. In the underground facilities, flight crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were trained and preparations were underway for organizing flights and air maneuvers with online coordination with the NATO control center located in Poland. Instructors from the Benelux, mainly from the Netherlands, as well as Czech and Spanish specialists lived in the bunker area and trained Ukrainian personnel. [The many failed plans of US-NATO remind me of the old dictum: “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray”]
In total, there were from 380 to 410 people in the underground mini-city. The situation center, in virtual training mode, has already practiced coordinating the flight of F-16 fighters in flights of 12 vehicles in combat gear with a landing approach in Ukraine for refueling. Next, the air launch of missiles against targets in the Russian Federation and return to the Polish airfield were practiced, the Win/Win channel reported. [So ironic. Initially, upon promising to send long-range missiles and fighter jets, the West insisted publicly that Kiev must never use these weapons to strike Russian territory. It was PR for public consumption. Of course, they knew Kiev would violate this rule. But now US-NATO, in a show of escalation, has publicly allowed Kiev to do this as a way of flexing their muscles. What no one was expecting was that Russia would be able to locate and destroy the airfield facilities intended for the use of these arms]
New tactic
Earlier it became known that the Russian army was introducing a new tactic - using Kinzhals and Iskanders in a new way, which marked a new turn in the Northern Military District. Tsargrad military observer Vlad Shlepchenko spoke about this.
Shlepchenko believes that in the third year of the SMO, Iskanders and Kinzhals began to be used more actively, and this is not an assumption, but an absolute certainty. [This has been enabled by a several-fold increase in Russian missile production as announced by Putin to a group of insiders]
And by the way, a characteristic detail is that they began to be used to destroy enemy personnel.
By peronnel the observer does not mean ordinary military personnel, but active generals, “big guys” from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries.
Today the situation has changed and now they are striking with powerful weapons quite calmly at concentrations of manpower, headquarters, and so on.
That is, not to say that for completely “exclusive” purposes. This is the first point, he notes, adding that in relation to the Yavoriv training ground, one must understand that this is a portal through which foreign manpower is poured into the military system of Ukraine.
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Our thanks to JS for this:
AS REPORTED AND CELEBRATED BY TEAM NIKKI HALEY HERE:
https://x.com/NikkiHaleyHQ/status/1795519897218281863
INSTAGRAM REPORTS:
“Finish Them! America ❤️ Israel. Always, Nikki Haley.”
This was the message scrawled by former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley during her visit to northern occupied Palestine this week. On bombs destined for Gaza and south Lebanon, Haley joins the ranks of US politicians who have scrawled personal messages on rockets destined to tear, limb from limb, the bodies of our children, our mothers and fathers, our people in Gaza.
There can be no higher level of complicity — whether from the Biden administration or from the likes of Nikki Haley and Mike Pence. From supplying the technical expertise to manufacturing the bombs, from bankrolling the Israeli military to cheering on the preparations for Israel’s slaughter, the United States continues to perform every task necessary to ensure the genocide continues — everything but pressing the button.
29 May 2024
Today just one day after hell fire rained down on scores of civilians in a displacement camp in Rafah, former Republican US ambassador to the UN & failed US Presidential hopeful @nikkihaley Nikki Haley, visited a military base in Israel and signed a US missile headed for Rafah with the words “Finish Them.” [Since Haley is known to have had designs on the presidency, she no doubt believes this genuflection to Israel will garner their support and that an Israeli endorsement is still worth something. She seems not to have noticed that Israel is failing in every way and its existence and world standing are hanging by a thread. Even as the US itself is losing the trust of its allies and its economy is also dangling from a thread, with payments of $1 trillion a year on the service of the debt alone – at a time when many countries are joining the BRICS and agreeing to settle international debts in non-dollar currencies (which can only weaken the dollar as a reserve currency). Not a propitious time to be seeking the US presidency. Not for her or anyone else]
Democrats supply the bombs. Republicans autograph them. The entire US Political class is united and complicit in this genocidal mission.
Furthermore, this image recalls the disturbing footage released in 2006 of Israeli school children signing missiles bound for Lebanon.
The indoctrination of hate and extremism is not unique to any one religion or people. Children of the world are not born ready to kill, nor to comprehend the import of their words. They learn cruelty and hate from their elders, and what does it say about any society that encourages its children as well as its civilians and visitors to engage in such a sadistic, psychopathic act?
May all the innocent children of our world inherit a better world than the one the ruling political class has created for them.
29 May 2024
REPORTED IN THE MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA HERE:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/29/nikki-haley-finish-them-israel/73890471007/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/nikki-haley-finish-them-missile-israel
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Video shows Saudi no longer kisses butt in Washington
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Thanks, JS:
RE: Fellow Americans, I am sick to death of the kind of images appearing above.
I hope you will agree, we’d had enough and it’s way past time to act boldly in acts of civil disobedience
SEE:
June 8 National Mobilization: Surround the White House for Gaza
June 08, 2024 at 12:00pm
https://www.answercoalition.org/national_mobilization_on_washington_for_gaza_2024008
Video:
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RE: For example, at one event, he suggested that he would have bombed Moscow and Beijing if Russia invaded Ukraine or China invaded Taiwan, surprising some of the donors.
-- Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/trump-wealthy-donors-fundraising/
The Washington Post is the only mainstream news outlet/publication to report on this. None of the other usual suspects have even bothered, so far.
RE: 'Kill the Jews': Arab mob attacks pro-Israel rally in Illinois
Events like this occur annually or more often in the Zionist Reich with government permission and even support, see for example:
What is the Israeli ultra-nationalist ‘flag march’?
Each year, thousands of Israeli far-right groups participate in the ‘March of Flags’, which marks the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel in 1967.
Al Jazeera, 29 May 2022
[Video: 2 minutes] :
Text:
WATCH: Israeli settlers chant against Palestinians while taking part in the flag march, #Jerusalem, June 15, 2021.
[Video: 1m 32s. Hebrew with English subtitles]
https://www.facebook.com/Activestills/videos/237597514478321
Hundreds of far-right Israeli activists chant "death to Arabs" in East Jerusalem
[video: 1m 43s] Apr 23, 2021
Hundreds of far-right Israeli activists took to the streets of Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday night chanting "death to Arabs" and “Arabs get out. A counter-protest by Palestinians resulted in violent clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces leaving more than 100 Palestinians injured.
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More JS:
RE: real power comes from controlling the narrative.
SEE:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.”
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
Edward Bernays (1891-1995) was a pioneer in the field of propaganda and “public relations”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
More on Edward Bernays and his views here:
https://wp.nyu.edu/gw/bernays/
https://propagandaprinciples.wordpress.com/edward-bernays/
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More EU states oppose Israel
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AC
I thought you would be interested in this story I found on MSN: By attacking and undermining the ICC, Israel has proved again it is a state gone rogue - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/by-attacking-and-undermining-the-icc-israel-has-proved-again-it-is-a-state-gone-rogue/ar-BB1nfCmB?ocid=socialshare&cvid=96ba088d496c4ee6b158593af54a2ef9&ei=12n
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AC
Just my 'opinion' - not claiming to be 'correct' . . when a nation produces such truly EVIL people such as Nikki Haley and so many others . . my opinion is that such a nation is near its end . . it is collapsing from within.
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 6:23 AM
Subject: Nikki Haley blasted for writing "finish them" on Israeli shell after Rafah massacre, ‘deport her back to India’ - Hindustan Times
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Our thanks to AN for this:
This makes warmonger Haley co-guilty of Israel's slaughter of the Palestinians and reflects the depths of depravity to which America has sunk in the eyes of the world:
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=288452
Please read the full article and click on the photograph to make it larger and see her signature. Circulate the link to your MPs here in the UK and to the British mainstream media..
Donors control universities
https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/04/Political-Donors-Control-Universities%20.html
Palestinian nurse’s acceptance speech that got her fired from NYU Langone
Older America has no heart, they are zombies – one reason we are failing in every way
Hyperlink to
Recommendations for preventing donors from imposing their will on us
This is how donors control the narrative – get rid of the people who oppose it!
Trump told donors he’ll deport pro-Palestinian protesters
The former president promised a crackdown on-campus protests, which have swept across the country over the past few months, as he spoke at a roundtable event in New York earlier this month
[But does Donald have a good grasp of the mood of the country? He sounds like he thinks Americans all want to see the genocide continue. But that has been changing]
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-elite-donors-want
“If you look at Republican donors,” explains Malhotra, “they have much more extreme views than ordinary Republicans on economic issues, such as taxation, the redistribution of wealth, and spending on social programs. For example, a good number of Republican voters want universal health care, but very few Republican donors want that
Arms makers as donors control America
The only difference between the US war machine and a band of armed crooks murdering people for money is that the US war machine does it at a far greater scale. As long as that’s going on there’s no reason to pretend otherwise. Hopefully people start looking past the smiley faced mask of the empire and begin opening their eyes to the blood-spattered face beneath it.
Yemen crisis linked to weapons maker Raytheon’s influencehttps://truthout.org/articles/yemen-crisis-linked-to-weapons-maker-raytheons-influence-on-us-foreign-policy/
Raytheon (like other defense contractors) also employs other tactics to influence U.S. policy. One method included hiring former State Department officials to lobby their former colleagues in the department to approve the sales Obama had blocked. [Lloyd Austin is tied to Raytheon by money] These officials are not required to register as lobbyists. In its quest to guarantee Trump’s approval of the weapons sales that Obama had halted, Raytheon also solicited support from lobbyist David J. Urban, who was in the same class at West Point with Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. They maintain strong ties and affectionately refer to themselves as the “West Point Mafia.”
As demonstrated by the Obama and Trump administrations, the role of U.S. presidents is to pursue a foreign policy that in large part protects and upholds the interests of U.S. arms manufacturers.
“The person Biden has reportedly picked to lead the Department of Defense [Lloyd Austin] is on the board of Raytheon, a key supplier of bombs to the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen that has lobbied aggressively in opposition to curbs on arms sales to the Saudi-led coalition,” tweeted In These Times reporter Sarah Lazare.
Me: This is a clear case of conflict of interests and it hurts the US by allowing a private company to override the will of the people with regard to war. Without these undue and unwholesome conflicts of interest there would be considerably less US involvement in immoral wars.
Biden’s pick to lead Pentagon Gen. Lloyd Austin is on board of defense contractor Raytheon
“The revolving door between Pentagon and industry can easily impact policy,” Rainwater added. “We have here a double whammy: 1) Concerns about generals instead of civilians in charge and, 2) Working for a mega-contractor who benefits from some policies and whose profits are threatened by others.”
Me:
Biden, in choosing Austin as defense chief, does NOT represent YOU! He represents the Neocon military mafia. This cozy relationship between arms makers and government MUST stop. Legislation is needed, and the only route to that is citizen action, a forceful civil disobedience movement.
Experts are expecting the US government to go bankrupt within 1-2 years. How in HELL can we talk about fiscal responsibility when we are paying out $1 TRILLION annually to service the debt?
This recklessness and irresponsibility will bring the US down eventually, guaranteed. The wars and “defense” spending continue in large part because of the unsavory relationships between government officials and arms makers. This on top of the immoral donations made by these companies to candidates and lawmakers.
We will continue to wage failed wars like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Libya, Iran, Ukraine, etc until we are bled dry. Actually we are already bled dry. Americans with serious illnesses are sentenced to death by our “leaders” who send our money to arms dealers instead of paying for vital social services.
Increasingly, Americans in big cities are doomed to spend their lives in tent cities on sidewalks because of inflation, joblessness and other economic disorders but we can send billions to the Nazis in Ukraine and the child killers in Israel. The only defense of the regime is lies, but no one believes them any more.
This is already a form of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy of credibility, morality, trust, and a dwindling economy.
The relationship between donors and politicians isn’t just corruption, it’s racketeering. Washington is a criminal enterprise and the people must join together to stop it, demanding strong legislation to block all the avenues by which candidates accept bribes in the form of “campaign” contributions and the unsavory and disgusting Austin-type links between business and government. This is part of what has come to be called the “revolving door” between government and business, although Austin has reversed it. Instead of exiting government and joining a business that is fed by government.
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Slaughter perpetrated by US-backed Nazis in Ukraine
This kind of random bombing was practiced against the Russian-speaking population of Donbass for 8 years straight after the criminal Obama regime invaded the Maidan and turned a peaceful protest movement into a violent coup. THAT was the provocation for the Russian incursion into Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022. You know, the “unprovoked” invasion.
The shelling of Donbass by Kiev was never reported in the “news.”
Only a few brave independent journalists dared to go and document it, as shown here
America has been scammed for generations. Forget everything you “know.”
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I agree wholeheartedly with the headline. (the body of the text is a little much for me to read all at once :). ) The thing that disturbs me most is not just the profiteering - it seems like every country in the western world has become a gun runner - but the fact that there is not a single government leader championing peace; they are all skewering it either because of their mental/moral sickness and/or their financial gain.
Great analysis, Don!
Jeff